New York/MoMA

The Dali exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (digital)

Continuing my visit to MoMA. I find it increasingly difficult to deal with the crowds of people in the museum, and though the building's design has been generally hailed, I find it less comfortable than any of the museum's previous incarnations. The circulation area where the escalators lead up and down is particularly crowded and even gloomy. I yearn for a more open transparent series of vertical movements, perhaps two or three, to somewhat disperse the crush of cultural consumers.


Vector Wall by Reiser and Umemoto at MoMA (digital)

At the top floor where I was going the crowd was thick as flies due to the popular Salvadore Dali exhibition, but the modular housing exhibition Home Delivery was heavily trafficked as well. I took a couple of pictures in the entry areas of both shows--Dali's visage hovering above the flood of people--the diaphanous Vector Wall by Reiser and Umemoto glowing and undulating.

Unfortunately, photographs were not allowed inside the Home Delivery exhibition, and so--the freedom to express myself as a photographer curtailed (for whatever good reason the museum may have)--I will refrain from talking about the contents inside. But on to the modular houses outside...